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E211: British Literature to 1760 Journal Requirement Instructions Alfred J. Drake | 423 UH | TW 12:45-1:45 | ajdrake@ajdrake.com Due Dates: First 3 authors, Thursday, July 24th. Shakespeare, Milton, three other authors due Tuesday, August 12th. Why Journals? I assign journal-keeping to help you stay up-to-date on your reading, participate more easily in discussions, and gain insight into paper topics and exam responses. Moreover, keeping a journal improves skills. 1) Read all questions (preferably before reading the text), even the ones you choose not to write about: they will help you develop your thoughts. 2) Word process your journal so you can save a copy for your own use in developing paper topics. (Or at least handwrite them neatly and make yourself a copy.) Never give an instructor your only copy of anything. 3) Since you will write about eight authors (Shakespeare, Milton, and six others of your choosing), provide the name of the author and text, and label the questions to which you are responding, as in Wyatt, "Whoso List to Hunt," #3. 4) A good response may vary in length depending on the question, but I don't intend that you should write more than a mid-length paragraph for any response. Perhaps some can be handled in a few sentences. But whatever their length, journal entries should be thoughtful, not perfunctory: they are not, after all, "answers" to exam questions; they are your responses. 5) Twice in the quarter, I shall collect journals: on Thursday of Week 2, and on Tuesday, August 12th. I suggest that you always bring your journals to class so that you can refer to them if you want to, but it's up to you. You only need to bring them on the due dates. If you want to email them through midnight on the day they are due, that's acceptable, too. 6) The journals must be done to pass the class; they take the place of a midterm. Cumulatively, they will count for 20% of the course grade. I will examine the two main sets of responses (Week 2 and Week 5) and mark them each with a grade.
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